That Fire Within

Like a folk song this impressionistic documentary unfolds the life of Aune, a subsistence farmer living in the north of newly independent Namibia. While her husband is away working, Aune raises their seven children, tends her crops and works with the other women of her village. Together they try to improve social conditions damaged by years of war. A woman with a practical philosophy, knowing that the community faces disaster from prolonged drought, Aune still manages to “laugh beauty into life”.